![]() ![]() But when the corporate rep turns up dead, things start to unravel for the bakery detectives. When they start spending the money, it seems all their dreams have come true. ![]() Rachael and Pippa have finally hit it big with a corporate buy-out of their boutique bakery. ![]() When the body of one of the guests is found, Laura is forced to rely on her training to find the killer before the storm lets up and they can slip away.Ī Murder Mystery in the Cutthroat Bakery BusinessĪ fast paced cozy mystery from #1 Best Selling Author Stacey Alabaster As hurricane Anna cuts them off from the mainland, tempers flare resulting in threats and sabotage. Spending time at Rim Runners should have been the perfect prescription to help rebuild her life, but the mood at the resort is like the weather-stormy. Giving in to her brother's request, she goes to visit his new island resort during a special weekend for the investors. Laura must rely on her experience to find the killer before the storm sets them free.Vacations can be MurderAfter the loss of her husband, ex-homicide detective turned mystery writer, Laura Merrifield turns to her family. Add in a hurricane, sabotage and a dead body, and the trip is anything but relaxing. A trip to an island resort should have been just the thing. Vacations can be MurderAfter losing her husband in the Middle East conflict, ex-homicide detective Laura Merrifield is struggling to rebuild her life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But if your goal is to transform the auto industry and the way people get around, the business itself should probably be as sustainable as the powertrain. There’s nothing inherently wrong with reaching for the stars when developing new technology of products. In Ludicrous, Niedermeyer chronicles the story of Tesla, looking at what the company has accomplished and where it has gone wrong. But why should a company that for a time had a higher market value than General Motors or Ford, need to raise so much cash in order to achieve such a small market share? However, the cult of personality that Musk has built around himself has enabled Tesla to go back to the equity and debt markets over and over again, raising some $19 billion since 2010. To date, Tesla’s business has never been self-sustaining. A key factor in Tesla’s survival as a going concern has been its ability to raise new capital to fund operations. ![]() He has also been the chief pitchman for the brand throughout most of its history.Ĭonversely, he has been in many ways the company’s biggest problem. Musk personally put in most of the dollars that made the Roadster a reality. ![]() ![]() Certainly, without Musk’s early and ongoing involvement, Tesla would almost certainly never have delivered a product or survived to this day in its current form. Unlike a biography of Musk published a couple of years ago, Ludicrous is not a hagiography of the man, nor does it especially even focus on him except to the degree that he has impacted the path of the company. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1956, George brought home three lion cubs. George was a game warden in Northern Kenya at the time. She was a botanist with a deep interest in East African flora and fauna. She met George Adamson on safari in Kenya. Joy was born to the name Friederike Victoria Gessner she was renamed by her second husband. In the process they laid commendable foundations for future generations. This couple’s ground-breaking conservation efforts may have seemed silly to many during those early years, but the Adamson’s stuck with it. ![]() It couldn’t have been an easy feat living in a remote area of the African savannah, nurturing and eventually returning an orphaned lioness back into the wild. Joy and George Adamson were the pioneers behind this incredible journey and their conservation legacy continues today. ![]() They introduced us to Elsa the Lioness and the book Born Free, which inspired an award-winning, heart-warming film, that continues to melt hearts everywhere. When it comes to household names, Joy and George Adamson most certainly fit the bill at least in the world of conservation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of his other self-illustrated books included ‘Peter Graves’ (1950), ‘Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead’ (1966), ‘The Forbidden Forest’ (1978), and ‘Gentleman Bear’ (1985). In 1972 he received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for ‘Bear Circus’ (1971). He was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1952 for ‘Bear Party’ (1951) and in 1957 for ‘Lion’ (1956). Before serving in the United States Army during World War II he wrote and illustrated several books, including ‘Elisabeth, the Cow Ghost’ (1936), ‘The Great Geppy’ (1940), and the first two books in his comical series about an otterhound, ‘Giant Otto’ and ‘Otto at Sea’ (both 1936).ĭu Bois received the 1948 Newbery Medal for ‘The Twenty-One Balloons’ (1947), a fantasy-adventure story about a professor who takes a hot-air balloon journey and crashes on an unusual island. A few years later he was offered a scholarship to Carnegie Technical School of Architecture but turned it down when a children’s book he created was accepted for publication. The family returned to the United States when he was 14. His family moved to France when he was 8, and the meticulousness stressed at the French schools he attended influenced his later work habits and style. ![]() He is known for detailed drawings and precise, imaginative text.ĭu Bois, the son of noted painter and art critic Guy Pène du Bois, was born on May 9, 1916, in Nutley, N.J. During his long career, William Pène du Bois provided illustrations for some 50 children’s books, about half of which he also wrote. ![]() ![]() She wants to participate in the ritual for her to become an adult woman of her tribe and be grounded in the tradition of her home. She finds her place at the university, but the adjustment is hard and after a year, she comes home with her alien companion. Binti, as a harmonizer, helps to solve the immediate problem and bring about a peace, but at great personal cost to herself. During the space travel everyone on board expect for her is massacred as part of a long feud. There are three distinct parts here, but the story is a single story.īinti, in part one, secretly leaves her traditional African village home to enter an alien university against the wishes of her family. ![]() I assume that these will be packaged together in a single volume at some point. ![]() The Night Masquerade is the third part to what is really a single long novel. And sometimes those from our own culture or family are less close than those aliens that are adopted into out family. Part of what is important about reading an African author writing alien stories is that she points out that sometimes those of different human cultures are actually just as alien as the actual aliens. Part of what is important about alien stories is that they are alien. ![]() And now she also brought war to her home. Summary: Binti returned home to try to find stability, she found more confusion realizing that the home she thought she understood was not what she understood. ![]() ![]() "This atmospheric historical mystery will transport and captivate readers. ![]() "A tense political thriller, a beautiful romance, and a coming of age all in one unique package." - School Library Journal, starred review When evidence begins to point to the Crown Prince himself as the murderer, Hyeon and Eojin must work together to search the darkest corners of the palace to uncover the deadly secrets behind the bloodshed.įorbes Most Anticipated Book of 2022 Selection In her hunt for the truth, she encounters Eojin, a young police inspector also searching for the killer. ![]() Determined to prove her beloved teacher's innocence, Hyeon launches her own secret investigation. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps finally win her estranged father's approval.īut Hyeon is suddenly thrust into the dark and dangerous world of court politics when someone murders four women in a single night, and the prime suspect is Hyeon's closest friend and mentor. ![]() There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. To enter the palace means to walk a path stained in blood. ![]() June Hur, critically acclaimed author of The Silence of Bones and The Forest of Stolen Girls, returns with The Red Palace-a third evocative, atmospheric historical mystery perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Kerri Maniscalco. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, there's a consequence: Anyone who bleeds on Sarah's bones becomes a target of the Shadyside Killers. ![]() This is why when Deena completes Sarah's skeleton, she sees exactly what happened in 1666. And everything you take and everyone you harm, you will feel the grip of my hand. "The truth shall be your curse," she tells Solomon. The villagers hang Sarah, but not before she promises to reveal the truth about the Goodes. This is an easy task, when the villagers already believe Sarah's soul to be damned, after she was discovered kissing and falling in love with Hannah Miller, the pastor's daughter. To stop her from telling everyone, Solomon frames Sarah for the deaths of multiple children in the village (he'd initially tried to frame Pastor Miller). Sarah points out this sees the murders of even more people, as the Devil heads out on a killing spree. He writes the sacrifice's name on the stone wall in the secret passage beneath his house and the Devil possesses them. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the mid-1970s, Kinney began working with fellow comics artist Paul Mavrides on "Cover-Up Lowdown", originally a weekly panel cartoon that was collected and published by Rip Off Press in November 1977. ![]() Kinney contributed comics stories to all eight issues of Young Lust. According to Kinney, Young Lust "became one of the top three best-selling underground comix, along with Zap Comix and Gilbert Shelton's The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers". Griffith and Kinney gradually morphed the title into a satire of societal mores. ![]() Unlike many other sex-fueled underground comix, Young Lust was generally not perceived as misogynistic. ![]() The title, which parodied 1950s romance comics such as Young Love, was noted for its explicit depictions of sex. Next, Kinney and Bill Griffith co-edited Young Lust, an underground comix anthology published sporadically from 1970 to 1993. Kinney contributed to the first four issues (1968–1970), as well as the eighth and final issue (1973). Bijou Funnies was heavily influenced by Mad magazine, and, along with Zap Comix, is considered one of the titles to launch the underground comix movement. Crumb, of the original Bijou Funnies crew. Kinney was a member, along with Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch and R. ![]() ![]() ![]() Safe she is, but believing Jamie gone forever, she’s obliged to live without a heart, her only comfort their daughter, Brianna. ![]() ![]() It’s a prayer he’ll utter many times over the next twenty years, never knowing but always hoping that Claire made it through the standing stones, back to the safety of her own time. ![]() Lord, he prayed passionately, that she may be safe. Waking among the fallen on Culloden Field, he is concerned neither for his men nor his wounds but for his wife and their unborn child. Jamie Fraser is, alas, not dead-but he is in hell. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the West Indies, Diana Gabaldon weaves magic once again in an exhilarating and utterly unforgettable novel. In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber. Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer.”- Publishers Weekly The third book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her exhaust gases mix with a soft breeze carrying smells of gums and manure. She is on her way to her home in the conservation reserve at the end of the valley. She drives down the valley past the paddocks and fences, sheep and cattle, past the 1080 poison signs warning of baiting for dingoes and wild dogs, and the kangaroo and wombat road kill. ![]() The interludes are inspired by Kathleen Stewart's performative technique of taking everyday incidents from our own lives and relating them in the third person ‘she.’ 4 We hope this tension between the ‘we’ of the musings, and the ‘she’ of the interludes, opens an intimate space of affective engagement for the reader. It is in this place that we are implicated in the intractable realities of human and more than human settler colonial relations that are played out on a daily basis. More specifically, through a series of interludes and musings, we think and write from a small rural valley community in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. We are thinking and writing from the Antipodes, from the messy legacies of Australian settler colonialism that we have inherited. ![]() ![]() 3 In this article, we pick up on some recent feminist debates within the environmental humanities to think about the question of inheritance through the paradoxical figure of the Anthropocene. Beyond this, it also matters what semiotic/material nodes or figures we think through, 1 where we think from 2 and whom we think with. ![]() |